JDA Music Bot¶

jagrosh's MusicBot is a very powerful music bot written in Java with JDA.

There is no official image for this service, so we'll use openjdk to run this service manually.

Pre-Installation¶

We'll create a folder in the main user's home where all the service's data will be saved.

mkdir ~/services/discord/discord-jda-music-bot

We'll also need to download the latest version of the jar from here which will be downloaded inside an app folder where all the bot's data will be stored.

cd ~/services/discord/discord-jda-music-bot && mkdir app && cd app
wget https://github.com/jagrosh/MusicBot/releases/download/0.4.0/JMusicBot-0.4.0.jar
mv JMusicBot-0.4.0.jar JMusicBot.jar

Now, we should have a JMusicBot.jar file inside of ~/services/discord/discord-jda-music-bot/app.

Configuration¶

This bot requires its configuration to be saved in a text file. We'll create a file called config.txt with:

nano ~/services/discord/discord-jda-music-bot/app/config.txt

And its content should be as follows:

token=<DISCORD_TOKEN_HERE>
owner=<OWNER_ID_HERE>
prefix=%
game="DEFAULT"
status=ONLINE
songinstatus=true
altprefix="NONE"
stayinchannel=true
maxtime=0
updatealerts=false

Docker Compose¶

JDA Music Bot will be run using Docker Compose. The content of the docker-compose.yml file is as follows:

services:
  bot:
    image: openjdk:23-slim
    restart: unless-stopped
    volumes:
      - ./app:/opt/app
    working_dir: /opt/app
    command: ['java', '-Dnogui=true', '-jar', 'JMusicBot.jar']
    environment:
      TZ: America/Guayaquil

Running¶

Start up the service with:

docker compose up -d

That's it! The service will auto-start on system startup and restart on failure.